Worst/Best Radio Ads

Garmin sat nav ad with the full choir of american folk is really getting on my nerves just now (the TV version is even worse)....and there's some ad that's all over 98fm with some singing in it to the tune of Old McDonald, two girls and a guy...I don't even know what it's for (possibly insurance?) but it's got me to the point of throwing things at the work radio.

Oh and the one where some kid is asked what he wants for christmas: [Dort accent]"One million euro....I'm serious..."[/Dort accent]; if he was mine he'd be phoning Childline...

Oh yeah I know it's for a good cause but the advert with some muppet repeating "Are we there yet?" is very grating....the one As Gaelige is nearly as bad...

Nightwish wrote: »

The latest "giving up smoking" ad where some guy coughs for about 10 mins. Its bad enough listening to someone cough without broadcasting it on radio 4 or 5 times an hour.

Bad ad indeed. The bastard deserves to get lung cancer.

it's just an expression, fairly common I would have thought.


Banagher, a place-name, a town in Co. Offaly in which the novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) spent some time as a Post Office surveyor but chiefly famous for its inclusion in the saying 'That beats [often pronounced /be:ts/] (or bangs) Banagher,' a common reaction to something extraordinary or absurd. Banagher was once a 'pocket borough', meaning that the local lord nominated its representatives in Parliament. The town became famous for this (once-common) undemocratic way of conducting politics, so if something was really anomalous it was said to 'beat Banagher.' Trollope, 'The Kellys and the O'Kellys, 221: "Conspiracy" av [if] that don't bang Banagher!""; Joyce, 'Finnegans Wake,' 87.31: "bank from Banagher"; Plunkett, 'Farewell Companions,' 293: "'That beat's Banagher,' he said."

"That beats Banagher" is a west of Ireland saying from the days when Banagher had the best team in the country/province: "That beats Banagher, and Banagher beats all" - hence it's the best in the country/world.

The ad I really hate at the moment is the one about domestic violence. It's a great ad for most of it - the two kids playing their chilling game of mommies and daddies - "What? Not in front if the kids?" - but then that martyred voice wailing "Domestic vilence, end the silence" - I want to, umm, hit her.

I haven't had time to read all 27 pages of this thread but here's some of my most hated ads on radio:

Barry's Tea, I hate all 90 seconds of it (probably not as much as Fozzy Bear though).

Those awful litter ads, especially the one where the girl goes ' so are you going to as me out?' and the fella replies 'after what you just did?...I thought you were more hygienic than that...you need help...pick up your chewing gum/rubbish and throw it in the bin'. So true to life.

Those Daybreak ads where they advertise some prize or other if you shop there, with the guy who's convinced he's going to win. then it ends with the annoying drawn out 'Daybreak, the difference in your day' jingle.

That Garmin sat-nav ad, the song just gets stuck in my head and doesn't go away. Plus they're on the radio every 15 minutes.

The Today FM Christmas ads, they're all terrible but the one with Paul Collins has to be the worst.

That's all I can think of now but after listening to the radio for an hour on my way home I'm sure I'll have loads more tomorrow.

ah this thread again...
Hate to sound like a Homestore and more ad here, but once again €ircon's broadband ads have me sticking forks in my speakers....that gurl with the celtic tiger twang who wants to store her all her precious fau-toes and this steroetypical bullsh*t about "the lads" wanting to catch up with all the football from setanta, because of course every male in the country is nothing but a soccer obsessed pillock with no interest in anything else on the whole WWW, and as a modern woman, no matter how much she detests soccer, she'll pretend to like it because they're "the lads"...
The tone, the generalisation, the very essence of the ad screams that €ircon want to be down with the big spending 20-somethings, when their packages are nothing short of daylight robbery and are bettered by nearly every other BB supplier in the market.
Also the ad is misleading when it doesn't in fact tell you the full price of what our little princess is actually paying....it's certainly more than €15 a month.
At least they got rid of that poxy music...

Hmm. According to the AA Roadwatch route planner, driving from Dublin to Leitrim takes 2 hours 12 minutes.

I couldn't find a bus or train to take me there on Bus Eireann or Iairnrod Eireann, though. Maybe not so green.